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To: SleeperCatcher

Why change the Constitution? It is fine.

START FOLLOWING THE ONE WE HAVE!

Idiots who want a “Constitutional Convention” are too stupid to realize what the negative consequences WILL be.


9 posted on 08/12/2018 7:45:31 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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To: Nik Naym

Not sure about that. In theory the Bill of Rights was unnecessary. The Constitution by its own terms was already one of limited, enumerated government, i.e. the government had no right to do anything other than what was spelled out in the Constitution. But the Framers didn’t think that implicit framework was enough, and they wanted to basically redundantly state specifically certain things that the government was prohibited from doing, because they presciently knew that the government would try to. So, having a Constitutional Convention to basically put in a couple of new amendments that reinforce the Constitution as written, and put in a process to protect against corruptions of it, I think it could be useful.


61 posted on 08/12/2018 12:04:45 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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